Self-Absorption in the Digital Era: A Review of "Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" by Mark Coeckelbergh

James J. Hughes

doi:10.55613/jeet.v33i1.128

Self-Absorption in the Digital Era: A Review of "Self-Improvement

Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" by Mark Coeckelbergh

Authors

James J. Hughes University of Massachusetts Boston https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6403-1015

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55613/jeet.v33i1.128

Keywords:

philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, applied ethics

Abstract

Mark Coeckelbergh is a Belgian philosopher who specializes in the philosophy of technology. His work primarily explores the intersection of technology and society, specifically the philosophical implications of emerging technologies such as AI and robotics. He has written on whether machines can be moral agents and how ethical frameworks should be applied to autonomous machines. He has a broad philosophical perspective drawing on classical sources, Eastern philosophy, Marxism, Foucault, phenomenology, and the postmodernists. In this short text, he brings his remarkable insights and erudition to bear on our attempts at self-improvement in the age of AI.

References

Coeckelbergh, M. (2022). Self-improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Columbia University Press.

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Published

2024-02-21

Issue

Vol. 33 No. 1 (2023): January-June 2023

Section

Book Reviews

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Self-Absorption in the Digital Era: A Review of "Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" by Mark Coeckelbergh. (2024). Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies, 33(1), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.55613/jeet.v33i1.128